Книга пророка Ионы 4
1 И опечалися Иона печалию великою и смутися,
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
2 и помолися ко Господу и рече: о Господи, не сия ли убо словеса моя, яже глаголах, еще сущу ми на земли моей? Сего ради предварих бежати в Фарсис, зане разумех, яко милостив Ты еси и щедр, долготерпелив и многомилостив, и каяйся о злобах (человеческих):
He prayed to the LORD, and said, “Please, LORD, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
3 и ныне, Владыко Господи, приими душу мою от мене, яко уне ми умрети, нежели жити.
Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
4 И рече Господь ко Ионе: аще зело опечалился еси ты?
The LORD said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
5 И изыде Иона из града и седе прямо града, и сотвори себе кущу и седяще под нею в сени, дондеже увидит, что будет граду.
Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
6 И повеле Господь Бог тыкве, и возрасте над главою его, еже осенити его от злых его. И возрадовася Иона о тыкве радостию великою.
The LORD God prepared a vine and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
7 И повеле Господь Бог червию раннему во утрие, и подяде тыкву, и изсше.
But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine so that it withered.
8 И бысть вкупе внегда возсияти солнцу, и повеле Бог ветру знойну жегущу, и порази солнце на главу Ионину, и малодушствоваше и отрицашеся души своея и рече:
When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
9 уне ми умрети, нежели жити. И рече Господь Бог ко Ионе: зело ли опечалился еси ты о тыкве? И рече (Иона): зело опечалихся аз даже до смерти.
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
10 И рече Господь: ты оскорбился еси о тыкве, о нейже не трудился еси, ни воскормил еси ея, яже родися об нощь и об нощь погибе:
The LORD said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not laboured, neither made it grow; which came up in a night and perished in a night.
11 Аз же не пощажду ли Ниневии града великаго, в немже живут множайшии неже дванадесять тем человек, иже не познаша десницы своея, ниже шуйцы своея, и скоти их мнози?
Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?”
